Old Nokia and Android Smartphones to lose WhatsApp support by the end of 2016

Old Nokia and Android Smartphones to lose WhatsApp support by the end of 2016

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That’s right, the designers of WhatsApp have decided to no longer make the app compatible to run for a bunch of old Nokia and Android Smartphones by the end of this year. So if you’re still owning either a Nokia Express Music or an iPhone 3GS, you can say goodbye to WhatsApp’s messaging service.

WhatsApp published a new blog post where the authority has explicitly mentioned that by the end of 2016, a number of smartphones will no longer be able to run WhatsApp.

The underlying reason behind this decision is due to these smartphone’s inability to perfectly support all the upcoming features of WhatsApp that are yet to appear.

Therefore, if you think you can no longer communicate without WhatsApp, then change your smartphone right now if it falls under the aforementioned list. Since, no further updates are going to be available in the future, using an archaic smartphone will pose a severe threat to our privacy.

Smartphones that will no longer WhatsApp from the 1st of January 2017 are

BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10

Nokia S40

Nokia Symbian S60

Android 2.1 and Android 2.2

Windows Phone 7.1

iPhone 3GS/iOS 6

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